Testing
Methods used
Laboratories for asphalt petrology
The asphalt petrology complements the known asphalt technological investigation procedure, to the following methods:
- Image analysis of asphalt surfaces
- Light and transmitted light microscopy including polarisation and fluorescene method
- Electron microscopy
- X-Ray analytics
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
- Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX)
- Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)
- Focused Ion Beam (FIB)